A funny and irreverent look at friendships, dating, networking, mental health, physical health, work-life balance, and all the challenges that accompany adulting. Whether you're crawling through your work week toward that delicious slice of pizza and a nice cold beer, surviving a crazy get together with your "totally-normal-and-not-at-all-insane" family, or dealing with a serious case of the Mondays, just know you're not alone in this. How Do You Adult? provides invaluable observations and insight about the problems and weird occurrences we all come across in everyday adult life. This humorous collection of illustrations, charts, graphs, and comics focuses on the good, bad, and #relatable parts of being an adult. It's a full-frontal view of what adulthood really is: a bunch of humans who have no idea what they're doing. The majority of these comics depict the same red-haired girl-named Franna-an avatar the author uses to express her facetious and (usually) inappropriate inner thoughts. From the importance of tending to one's mental health to vivid discussions about how bowel movements almost always come at inconvenient times, the topics covered run the gamut. Other topics include: The woes of dating How to cope with making mistakes Work-life balance Dealing with Imposter Syndrome And more! This is a book that describes how truly messy adulthood can be, and reveals what's behind the curtain of being a "grown-up" (spoiler alert: it's not pretty). It takes a step back to say, "If you're having a hard time, it's alright. Even more than that, it's normal." This essential resource if perfect for anyone who needs a good laugh or wants to look like they've got it all together (even though none of us do).

In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the exploitative property classification for animals with a new transformative legal status or subjectivity called "beingness." In developing a new legal subjectivity for animals, one oriented toward respecting animals for who they are rather than their proximity to idealized versions of humanness, Animals as Legal Beings seeks to bring critical animal theorizations and animal law closer together. Throughout, Deckha draws upon the feminist animal care tradition, as well as feminist theories of embodiment and relationality, postcolonial theory, and critical animal studies. Her argument is critical of the liberal legal view of animals and directed at a legal subjectivity for animals attentive to their embodied vulnerability, and desirous of an animal-friendly cultural shift in the core foundations of anthropocentric legal systems. Theoretically informed yet accessibly presented, Animals as Legal Beings makes a significant contribution to an array of interdisciplinary debates and is an innovative and astute argument for a meaningful more-than-human turn in law and policy.

The idea of "midlife", and particularly the decline associated with the period, has become widespread in Euro-American culture. The symptoms of middle age are equally pervasive: back pain, mortgage payments, and an aversion to loud late-night activities. This pathology of midlife has even recently begun to be exported to all territories in the contemporary world system; people around the world are being invited to change the way they think about mature adulthood and to adopt the middle-class American version of middle age. Welcome to Middle Age! (And Other Cultural Fictions) is a welcome antidote to this epidemic, providing a refreshing examination of both this received idea of midlife and of alternative "fictions" that operate in cultures where middle age does not even constitute a life stage.

Childhood, adolescence, even the "twilight years" have been extensively researched and documented. But the vast terrain known as midlife--the longest segment of the life course--has remained uncharted. How physically and psychologically healthy are Americans at midlife? And why do some experience greater well-being than others?
The MacArthur Foundation addressed these questions head-on by funding a landmark study known as "Midlife in the U.S.," or MIDUS. For the first time in a single study, researchers were able to integrate epidemiological, sociological, and psychological assessments, as well as innovative new measures to evaluate how work and family life influence each other.
"How Healthy Are We?" presents the key findings from the survey in three sections: physical health, quality of life and psychological well-being, and the contexts (family, work) of the midlife. The topics covered by almost forty scholars in a wide variety of fields are vast, including everything from how health and well-being vary with socioeconomic standing, gender, race, or region of the country to how middle-aged people differ from younger or older adults in their emotional experience and quality of life. This health--the study measures not only health-the absence of illness--but also reports on the presence of wellness in middle-aged Americans.
The culmination of a decade and a half of research by leading scholars, "How Healthy Are We?" will dramatically alter the way we think about health in middle age and the factors that influence it. Researchers, policymakers, and others concerned about the quality of midlife in contemporary America will welcome its insights.
* Having a good life meanshaving good relationships with others to almost 70% of those surveyed. Less than 40% mentioned their careers.
* Reports of disruptive daily stressors vary by age, with young adults and those in midlife experiencing more than those in later adulthood.
* Men have higher assessments of their physical and mental health than woman until the age of 60.